Joby and I team teach the Old Testament to the 16-18 year olds and they typically welcome the sarcasm we sprinkle through out the lesson. We decided to make my fortune cookies for them and as per usual the fortunes were more comically demeaning then uplifting.
Examples include:
"You should be more concerned about your elephant smell"
"Your excessive body hair does not go unnoticed by others"
"You are not only dull yourself you are the cause of dullness in others."
We decided it would be more prudent to make the cookies an object lesson and compared the cookies to the adversaries tactics stating , "he puts things in beautiful enticing little packages, but on the inside he has nothing but disdain for you." We totally thought we were brilliant even though ironically we created the sarcastic fortunes for our own sadistic pleasure.
Anyway, we noticed one of the kids in our class seemed to be troubled and wasn't as boisterous as usual. We could tell he was having a bad day and so I kind of didn't want him to get a fortune cookie because of their potential to be a downer. I was hoping he would get a more mild one, but apparently he received the one which stated:
"Since you're gross shouldn't you be smart?"
So I was like "yeah, the adversary sucks can you believe he wrote something so incredibly rude."
Concern: What if his problem is that he thinks he is gross and unintelligent and the cookie confirmed it?
Needless to say he wasn't in class this week.
Moral of the story: Do not come to my and jobys class if you think you're gross and unintelligent and are having a bad day.
P.S. My kid and Joby are cute:
3 comments:
I'M NONE OF THOSE THINGS, well gross occasionally and yes, even unintelligent. So I take it back. I'm never coming to your class, ever. Except I like fortune cookies. So I'll think about it.
Way to have another "You make Jesus frown" moment to make kids doubt themselves and feel horrible about who they are..... Teacher of the Year-singlehandedly keeping therapists in business, one vulnerable kid at a time.
Thats how you build warriors. Shove them into the ground and then build them up how you want them.
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